It's not an issue, it's fully intentional. Fedora 9 shipped with kdepim 3.5, upgrading from 3.5 to 4.1 is a major upgrade which breaks several things, especially dependencies of other packages, but there are also some reported bugs which we hope will get fixed before the Fedora 10 release (which will be the first to include kdepim 4).

You can get kdepim 4.1 for Fedora 9 from the kde-redhat unstable repository. (You'll also have to pick up the kdeutils from there, because kdeutils in F9 also includes kjots from kdepim 4.1, because kjots used to be in kdeutils until 4.0. The kde-redhat unstable package of kdeutils doesn't include kjots, it's shipped in kdepim 4.1 instead, which is where upstream includes it.)

it all comes down to a person's view. Personally, I've never had a problem with openSUSE. the only real wayt o find a distro, is to try all of them and settle with the one you like the most. To ask which is the best, just leads to this constantly boring slam of other distros. But hey, it's what the linux community does best, slam microsoft, slam different linux desktop environments, and slam different distro's. I find it is the one thing that stops people I try to convince to come to linux, the constant in house bitching in the linux community.

Same here. I have tried a lot of distros but kept coming back to sweet Suse. I love the flexibility of openSuse especially during the installation and 11.0 is simple great. It's stable, fast, very reliable and is the most KDE friendly Linux that I have used up to now.
But like you said, it's a matter of personal taste. I have heard a lot of positive things about latest Mandriva release for example but I haven't tried it as yet, just because i am satisfied with openSuse.

Hmm, I can understand that if you look at just one distro you don't see the differences. But kubuntu is certainly making lots of little mistakes that make the experience worse.
If you want to compile a 3rd party app against the kubuntu shipped kdelibs all instruction pages fail you due to the different prefix. On top of that the headers require a newer cmake version than the one shipped.
I've been told font rendering is broken wrt hinting; the same actions lead to different results from other distros.
And thats just the two things I learned recently *after* switching to OpenSuse myself.
Not sure if you are the jonathan from kubuntu; don't take this personally! Just without a Q&A department mistakes will be going through to the release and the uses will suffer.

Its just depressing to see people walk away from kde because printing doesn't work and then to discover that if you install opensuse cups actually *does* detect all printers flawlessly.

There comes a time when the distro ships KDE in such a way that, honestly, they are no longer helping kde.

Having a different prefix is not a bug. Most instruction pages I've seen use the Kubuntu prefix anyway. The lastest cmake should be shipped in the KDE4 PPA along with the rest of the KDE 4.1 packages.

Fonts... honestly I'm not an expert, but they look fine here to me. Bug reports would be appreciated rather than having whispering rumors going around the interwebs that Kubuntu craps up fonts.

I do happen to be a Kubuntu contributor. (Though I am not Jonathan Riddell, who you are probably thinking of) We do actively look in to bug reports we receive and fix packaging bugs on our end. But if we don't receive bug reports for these kinds of things... People insinuating that Kubuntu is hurting KDE more than it helps doesn't help either. :( I seriously don't think anything Kubuntu is doing is doing that.

One could also say that any upstream KDE bug OpenSuse has will make people walk away from KDE. I'm sure many people have used OpenSuse to test KDE4.x and have walked away. Should they stop packaging KDE because it's not perfect software and will cause people to walk away from KDE? :P

Anyway, no hard feelings here either. In conclusion:
Less whispering in rumors, more bug reports. :)

I helped a friend install some software and dig an apt-get of the developer packages of kdelibs.
I got the message that the anon must be referring to that the compile fails because cmake 2.6 is required.
So the dev packages may be of 4.2.x on a system that doesn't ship cmake 2.6 :(

In my small blog (http://www6.cssmi.qc.ca/harfang_danym/index.php?2008/08/07/152-migration...), i made a quite positive review in french. Unfortunately, i came back to KDE 3.5.9 as my laptop has an NVIDIA card. I was using OpenSuse 11.0 with latest KDE 4.1.1 update, but there was some visual annoyance due to my video card. I've tried many modifications in xorg.conf but in vain. I'm just hoping that NVIDIA will release a new driver soon! I also await stable QT4 based releases from amarok, digikam and k3b! I'm pretty confident that i'll be back to KDE 4 in few weeks....